Amazon Kindle Vulnerabilities Could Have Led Threat Actors to Device Control and Information Theft

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Check Point Research (CPR) found security flaws in Amazon Kindle, the world’s most popular e-reader. By tricking victims into opening a malicious e-book, a threat actor could have leveraged the flaws to target specific demographics and take full control of a Kindle device, opening a path to stealing information stored.

• Victims would need to simply open a single malicious e-book to trigger the exploitation
• CPR was concerned the security flaws could allow targeting of specific demographics
• CPR responsibly discloses its findings to Amazon, who went on to deploy a fix
• Tens of millions of Kindles are estimated to be sold since 2007 debut

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